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Issue: Vol. 3281 No. 1: 27 Apr. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-04-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3281.1.2
Page range: 22–40
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 15

Taxonomic study of the Japanese species of the genus Salka Dworakowska (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae)

Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812–8581 Japan
Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha Erythroneurini taxonomy new species dimorphism

Abstract

Eight new species of the erythroneurine genus Salka are described and illustrated from the Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan: S.denticulata sp. nov., S. circumflexa sp. nov., S. okinawana sp. nov., S. diversa sp. nov., S. dimorpha sp. nov., S. maesatoensis sp. nov., S. nusukuensis sp. nov. and S. trimaculata sp. nov.

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